Chapter 223: Black Eats Black

In the bamboo forest.

Feng Lianghong concealed his breath and was fully alert to his surroundings.

After a while, energy came from the left side of the bamboo forest and a flash of light appeared.

Feng Lianghong stared at the light, with a talisman pinched at the sleeve.

"Daoyou, it's me."

Until a sound came from the bamboo forest, Feng Lianghong's expression relaxed a little. He clasped his hands together, and four flags broke out of the ground in the bamboo forest and fell back into his hands.

The formation was released, and a middle-aged man walked out of the bamboo forest.

"Fellow Daoist is really cautious."

Feng Lianghong did not respond to the other party's words, but asked in a deep voice: "How do you want to trade with me?"

"Fellow Daoist, can you let me take a look at the treasure first? After I confirm it is correct, we can trade."

The middle-aged man smiled slightly. Feng Lianghong was silent for a while, then took out the glass ball that he had shown Chu Ning from his storage bag.

Seeing the souls in the glass ball, the middle-aged man's eyes sparkled: "There are indeed a lot of souls. I wonder if you are satisfied with this thing, fellow Taoist?"

The middle-aged man raised his hand, and a ray of light shot towards Feng Lianghong. However, Feng Lianghong did not use his hand to catch it. Instead, he pressed the air, and the light stopped three meters in front of him.

A black broken sword was suspended in the air, with layers of inscriptions on the surface of the sword, and these inscriptions were arranged very neatly.

Even though it was a broken knife, the sharp murderous aura it exuded made Feng Lianghong's eyes light up.

This broken sword is an incomplete magic weapon.

Magical weapons, even if they are incomplete, are something that many Jindan cultivators can only dream of.

"What is your purpose?"

Feng Lianghong looked at the middle-aged man with sharp eyes. The soul in his glass ball could be useful to cultivators who practiced soul-related techniques, but it was not worth buying an incomplete magic weapon.

Feng Lianghong was very clear about this fact. The other party took out the incomplete magic weapon not only for his glass ball.

"Fellow Daoist, you are smart, so I will just tell you directly. I want the address where you want to collect these souls."

The middle-aged man looked at Feng Lianghong with a smile. Feng Lianghong said in a deep voice, "To tell you the truth, I slaughtered a family that I had a grudge against and took out the souls of the entire family to fill this ball. Otherwise, I would not have chosen to trade privately in the teahouse."

Feng Lianghong looked at the middle-aged man. When the transaction in the teahouse failed, he immediately left the teahouse and returned to his resting place.

However, two days later, a foundation-building cultivator came to him and said that a senior wanted something related to the soul in his hand. Feng Lianghong knew that he was being targeted.

However, he really wanted to sell the glass ball, so he made an agreement with the other party that he would choose the transaction location and would notify the other party after selecting the address.

This bamboo forest was the location he chose. There was only one formation in the open in the entire bamboo forest, but there were three other formations in secret, and there was also a teleportation formation. If something went wrong, he could activate the formation and escape immediately.

He did not choose to trade in Fire Phoenix City because of what the foundation-building cultivator said. According to him, the person who wanted to trade with him had some grudge with the Feng family and did not dare to enter Fire Phoenix City.

Regardless of whether the other party's words were true or false, Feng Lianghong was confident that he could escape if he had any evil intentions.

"If that's the case, then it's a bit of a pity. These souls alone are not worth as much as this Broken Dao Sword."

The middle-aged man shook his head with some regret: "If you only have this glass ball, I can only exchange it with other treasures."

"Five colored glass balls, a total of fifty thousand souls, in exchange for this incomplete magic weapon."

There was also a look of hesitation on Feng Lianghong's face, and after a while, four glass balls appeared in his hand.

"Okay, deal!"

Seeing these five glass balls, the man's face was overjoyed and he threw out a jade slip.

"This is the method of controlling the Broken Dao Sword."

Feng Lianghong did the same as before. He did not reach out to take it. Instead, he let the jade slip float in front of him. A jade basin as big as a bowl appeared in his hand, with a pool of clear water in it.

After the jade slip fell into the jade basin, the water in the basin did not change color. Only then did Feng Lianghong hold the jade slip in his hand.

"You are really careful, fellow Daoist."

The middle-aged man gave a bitter smile, and Feng Lianghong said in a deep voice: "It is better to be safe than sorry. Your Excellency should understand this."

Feng Lianghong is now certain that this person must be practicing some kind of evil magic and is in urgent need of souls, but he dares not kill them in large numbers. After all, slaughtering tens of thousands of cultivators, whether in the Hundred Cities area or in the territories controlled by the four major sects, will attract the pursuit of powerful people.

"Now that you have confirmed that there is no problem, shouldn't you give me this soul ball?"

The middle-aged man's words dispelled Feng Lianghong's last bit of worry. The other party gave him the method of controlling this incomplete magic weapon. If he didn't ask him for the five soul balls, it would make him have doubts.

Feng Lianghong flicked his finger and two soul balls shot towards the middle-aged man.

"The remaining three will be given to you after I confirm the contents of this jade slip."

"good."

Feng Lianghong put his spiritual consciousness into the jade slip, but a moment later, Feng Lianghong's expression suddenly changed and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

call out!

A black banner appeared in the middle-aged man's hand. The long banner was raised and instantly flew above Feng Lianghong's head.

A special energy from the black banner floated over Feng Lianghong's head, and Feng Lianghong's expression began to become dull.

"You idiot, do you really think these defensive measures of yours will be effective?"

After confirming that Feng Lianghong's soul had been suppressed at this moment, Dai Zongcheng had a mocking look on his face.

Dai Zongcheng walked towards Feng Lianghong and directly took away the remaining three glass balls in Feng Lianghong's hand. At the same time, he also took out the talisman from Feng Lianghong's sleeve.

"The Thousand Mile Teleportation Talisman is a good thing, but it's a pity that you don't have the chance to use it."

Dai Zongcheng took the talisman back on himself, and took out the storage bag from Feng Lianghong's waist, but the next moment he frowned.

"There are restrictions, and it seems that he is a formation master. If it weren't for the pressure injected into the jade slip by the Supreme Elder, you might really get away."

He is not a master and cannot break open the storage bag, but it doesn’t matter. As long as he brings Feng Lianghong back to the sect, the sect master will naturally find a way to break it.

Thinking of this, Dai Zongcheng summoned a flying boat. However, just as Dai Zongcheng was about to take Feng Lianghong onto the flying boat, his body suddenly paused, and his whole body became stiff for a moment.

Swoosh! A flash of light passed by, and Dai Zongcheng's head rolled down. At the same time, a bracelet above him flashed a red light, and a wisp of black smoke from Dai Zongcheng's body quickly floated towards the bracelet and was absorbed by it.

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The next moment, Chu Ning's figure appeared in the bamboo forest.

"I shouldn't kill the wrong person from Xuantian Sect."

When Chu Ning discovered Feng Lianghong through his spiritual sense, he stopped and observed from several miles away. When he saw the middle-aged man taking action, he had no intention of robbing his thieves, but the other party's words "Grand Elder" made him want to kill him.

The Grand Elder mentioned by a mid-stage Jindan expert must be an existence of a higher realm. There are currently five Yuanying experts in Chengshan Domain, but the only one who is called the Grand Elder is the one from Xuantian Sect.

The man in front of him is the elder of Xuantian Sect.

Knowing the other party's identity, Chu Ning naturally would not stand idly by. He had no psychological burden at all to kill people from Xuantian Sect.

Chu Ning raised his left hand, and a flame fell on Dai Zongcheng's body, while Chu Ning's eyes fell on Feng Lianghong.

This person is useless.

Chu Ning could clearly feel that this man's soul had been mostly damaged. For a Jindan cultivator, if his soul was mostly destroyed, he would be a useless person.

Summoning the underground boat, Chu Ning put Feng Lianghong and the black banner into the boat. As for the broken magic blade, he put it directly into his pocket.

After destroying the bodies and covering up all traces, Chu Ning controlled the underground boat and left the place.

Three days later.

Chu Ning appeared on an ordinary hill in the Baicheng area.

In addition to Chu Ning, there is also Feng Lianghong.

But at this moment, Feng Lianghong had a silly smile on his face, looking like a demented idiot.

In fact, Feng Lianghong is already a fool.

In three days, Chu Ning cracked Feng Lianghong's storage bag. Thanks to his two hundred years of research on formation restrictions, although Feng Lianghong's storage bag had restrictions, it only took him one day to deduce the method to crack it.

After cracking the restriction on Feng Lianghong's storage bag, Chu Ning discovered a lot of useful information from it.

First of all, this Feng Lianghong did not extract so many souls from the slaughtered monks, but was obtained from a mysterious place.

The reason why Feng Lianghong wanted to make things so mysterious was that he would rather people suspect that he had slaughtered the monks in an area than that he knew about a place with many monks' souls.

Chu Ning discovered this information from the information recorded in a jade slip in Feng Lianghong's storage bag. Chu Ning found that it seemed that every cultivator liked to hide some secrets in jade slips.

The cultivators in Chengshan Territory all have a hobby of writing diaries.

Chu Ning had to admit that Feng Lianghong acted very well and even he was fooled. Unfortunately, he was seen through by the people from Xuantian Sect.

Feng Lianghong's storage bag has restrictions, but the storage bag of the Jindan elder of Xuantian Sect has no restrictions. Chu Ning also found some useful information from the storage bag of the elder of Xuantian Sect.

The first was the jade slip that caused Feng Lianghong to be injured. In that jade slip was a trace of murderous intent from the Xuantian Sect’s Grand Elder that was intended to attack his soul.

The power of a Nascent Soul cultivator is simply not something a Golden Core cultivator can contend with. When Feng Lianghong invested his consciousness into the jade slip, his soul was exposed nakedly in front of this murderous intent.

As for the long black banner, it is an extremely high-grade spiritual weapon that can imprison the soul.

To Chu Ning's regret, the jade slip in the storage bag of this Xuantian Sect elder did not record how the Xuantian Sect discovered Feng Lianghong, nor did it record the method of controlling the broken sword.

"I saved your life. Whether you can wake up in the future depends on your luck."

Chu Ning looked at the silly-smiling Feng Lianghong and pointed his finger, leaving a mark on her body.

This mark can save Feng Lianghong's life once.

After leaving Feng Lianghong at the foot of the mountain, Chu Ning drove away in his underground boat.

He has already done his best for Feng Lianghong. There is a family of cultivators at the foot of the mountain, but the highest level of their cultivation is only at the initial stage of foundation building. The other party will be able to discover the abnormality in Feng Lianghong and will take Feng Lianghong back to the family.

(End of this chapter)